Airpak 3.0 Improves Airflow Modeling Workflow

By DE Editors

ANSYS, Inc. (Southpointe, PA) released version 3.0 of its ANSYS Airpak airflow modeling software, which introduces increased productivity, improves the meshing technology, and enhances the realism of displayed results. ANSYS Airpak technologies are now part of the ANSYS, Inc. suite of products, from the company’s acquisition of Fluent Inc. in 2006.

This latest version introduces an intuitive user environment, with model manager, advanced object wizards, alignment tools and four-window simultaneous views. The model manager facilitates the creation, edits, replication, and object functions; assemblies and libraries; and problem/project configurations and settings.

Centralized model management allows the user to access different aspects of the model, most useful when handling large and complex models. Several advanced object wizards make it easy to build a complex model from scratch in minutes.

Four-window viewing simultaneously displays complex 3D models from four viewpoints with onscreen iconic view controls to select viewpoints. The user can manipulate the geometry as well as postprocessing views from different angles since each of the viewpoints are independently controllable.

ANSYS Airpak 3.0 also offers a mixed meshing capability in which the user can use mixed tetrahedral and hexahedral meshes. The new automatic hex-dominant mesher can be used to mesh geometries quickly and efficiently. It is robust and highly automated, delivering mostly hexahedral elements; it also includes triangular, tetrahedral and pyramidal cells.

The visualization of models and results has been enhanced by display of textured surfaces, ability to specify degrees of transparency, and various lighting options for more realistic scenes.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.